Virat Kohli in motion towards Pakistan in Asia Cup 2023© X (previously Twitter)
Indian cricket workforce star batter Virat Kohli took a leaf out of his Royal Challengers Bangalore teammate AB De Villiers to play a surprisingly audacious shot through the Asia Cup 2023 match towards Pakistan on Monday. Within the closing over of the Indian innings, Kohli was trying to rating some fast runs and his shot choice left loads of followers stunned. On the penultimate ball of the over, he moved throughout to the off stump to make room for himself however on the final second, modified his choice. As an alternative, he opened the face of his bat to information the full-toss supply in the direction of the third-man for a boundary.
Virat Kohli returned to his record-breaking methods together with his forty seventh ODI ton whereas KL Rahul dispelled all doubts over his health with a scintillating hundred and powered India to a mammoth 356 for two towards a hapless Pakistan in an Asia Cup Tremendous 4 match on Monday.
Kohli additionally turned the quickest to succeed in 13,000 runs within the format as he closed down on Sachin Tendulkar’s world report 49 ODI centuries.
Stunning shot by Virat Kohli
Wonderful ….#PAKvIND #AsiaCup23 pic.twitter.com/7xWUyvjTzJ— Asad Nafees (@nafeeesch) September 11, 2023
The modern legend’s love affair with R Premadasa Stadium continued as his unbeaten 122 off 94 balls was his fourth hundred on trot at this very venue.
Kohli’s hundred didn’t overshadow Rahul, who raced to his sixth ODI hundred — a chiseled 106-ball-111 not out in an outstanding 233-run stand for the unconquered third wicket.
The highly-rated Pakistan bowling assault lay in tatters and was hamstrung on the day because of the absence of their quickest man Haris Rauf, who did not flip up resulting from an damage.
Shaheen Shah Afridi, thought of to be India’s largest menace was taken to the cleaners by India’s high 4 as he leaked 79 runs in his 10 overs. Total, the Pakistani bowlers struggled to comprise the opposition batters, who hit 37 boundaries and 9 sixes in all.
(With PTI inputs)
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